Parallel and Thread-Safe Ruby at High-Speed with TruffleRuby
Sprache des Vortragstitels:
Englisch
Original Tagungtitel:
RubyKaigi 2018 Conference
Sprache des Tagungstitel:
Englisch
Original Kurzfassung:
Array and Hash are used in every Ruby program. Yet, current implementations either prevent the use of them in parallel (the global interpreter lock in MRI) or lack thread-safety guarantees (JRuby raises an exception on concurrent Array#<<). Concurrent::Array from concurrent-ruby is thread-safe but prevents parallel access.
This talk shows a technique to make Array and Hash thread-safe while enabling parallel access, with no penalty on single-threaded performance. In short, we keep the most important thread-safety guarantees of the global lock while allowing Ruby to scale up to tens of cores!